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Re: Skip Navigation

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From: Joel Ward
Date: Jul 22, 2002 2:10PM

> The skip link strategy is only works on Internet Explorer. It does not
> work for Opera and Netscape. So you really need to use multiple
techniques
> to meet this 508 requirement. I suggest using headers for main topics and
> tabindex for the first link past the navigation bar.
>

Hi Jon,

What method does not work in Netscape/Opera? I thought the page anchor
method worked across all standard browsers?

E.g.
<a href="#content">Skip to content</a>
<!--Navigation goes here-->
<a name="content"></a>
Content

?

Joel


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